LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22512, 1 September 1936, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Early Kowhais A number of early kowhai trees are now displaying their beautiful yellow blossoms in different suburbs. A fine specimen in Wynyard Road, Mount Eden, is in full bloom, and a smaller tree in the grounds of Government House is beginning to make its annual display.

Clydesdales from Scotland A shipment of 16 Clydesdale colts and fillies will arrive from Scotland by the Port Hobart early this morning. Sent to New Zealand by a noted Clydesdale breeder and exporter, the horses will be sold by auction at Trenthnm next week. Tho shipment created great interest in Scotland.

Rotary Congress The Pan-Pacific Rotary Congress for will bo held at Wellington next March, it was reported at yesterday's luncheon of the Auckland Rotary Club. Delegates from many parts of the Pacific will attend, and a feature of the congress will be addresses by Rotarians from Chicago. New Exhibits at Zoo A honey bear which has been ordered for the Auckland Zoological Park is expected to arrive from Sourabaya, Java, by the Narbada next Saturday. Three sea lions and two racoons will arrive from San Diego Zoo, Southern California, at an early date, and 12 Australian finches and a pair of brush turkeys are on order from Taronga Park, Sydney.

Dwellings and Shops A request that Asiatics should be prohibited from using lock-up shops as dwelling houses was received from tho secretary of the New Zealand European Fruit and Vegetable Traders' Association at a meeting of the City Council last night. It was recommended by the Legal and By-faws Committee that the council should take no action. The council reforred tho matter back to the committee. Victoria Park Tennis Courts The resurfacing of the hard tennis courts at Victoria Park is to be undertaken shortly by the City Council, and they will be ready for play at the opening of the coming season. The sum of £142 was placed on this year's estimates for the work. Reporting to tho council last night, the parks superintendent, Mr. T. S. Aklridge, said tho work had been delayed owing to unfavourable weather conditions. Broadcast From Liner Awatea

The special broadcast from stations ] YA, 2YA, 3YA and 4YA of a radiotelephone conversation with Captain A. H. Davey and others on board the Union Company's new 14,000-ton liner Awatea is now-scheduled to commence at 6.40 p.m. to-day, instead of 8 p.m., as was previously arranged. The broadcast will continue for about 20 minutes. The Awatea is on her maiden voyage from the Clyde and is due at Wellington on Thursday. Hairdressers' Charges

Although hairdressers face higher wages costs, saloon charges in Auckland will not bo altered for the time being. They are Is 3d for haircutting in the inner business area and Is outside although in Wellington and the Waikato the price is Is 6d. Until costs are ascertained and the public's increased, spending powcfr is defined, no action in increasing prices in Auckland is likely. It is anticipated that assistants will be moving for a new award about October.

Doctor Misses Congress An insight into the administration of the Queen's Hospital, Honolulu, was the only knowledge gained on her visit by the woman member of the New Zealand delegation to the Pan-Pacific Surgical Association's congress, Dr. E. D. G. Gillies, radiologist at the Palmerston North Hospital, who returned by the Niagara yesterday. Dr. Gillies had the misfortune to become ill three days before her arrival at Honolulu, and had to remain in hospital until it was time to sail for home.

Famous Paintings A proposal made by Sir George Richardson that there should be made available for sale in the Art Gallery postcards and reproductions of famous pictures in the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, London, was the subject of a report by the director of Art Gallery, Mr. John Barr, at a meeting of the City Council last night. "Such data as are available in Auckland do not indicate any great desire on the part of visitors for such a service," Mr. Barr said. Experience in producing an illustrated catalogue was not encouraging, but when the present edition of the catalogue, which had sold at the rate of approximately only one every two days, was exhausted, it might wqll be considered whether a new edition on the same lines was desirable, or whether it would not be better to experiment with postcard reproductions of the more popylar pictures. The matter was deferred. British 'XTnder-Nourishment Tho connection between tho marketing of produce from the Dominions and the problem of the under-nourishment of a large section of the population of Great Britain was emphasised by Mr. John Morgan, agricultural editor of the Daily Herald, London, who arrived by tho Niagara from Vancouver yesterday to investigate marketing conditions in the Dominion. "There is no question whatever that an expanding market is still available in "Great Britain for wholesome food products such as dairy produce, and reasonably spaced supplier of meat," stated Mr. Morgan. "Withit recent months the one social issue that has stirred the national conscience of Gireat Britain has been tho recent revelation of tho scale of under-nourishment that exists among a largo section of the population. There is little doubt that somo organised effort will have to be made to meet this state of affairs." Future of Fort Bastion

The effort being made by the Auckland City Council to acquire the Fort Bastion site as a public domain has not been successful, as it is considered by the Government that the area has still some value for defence purposes. The council approached the Minister of Lands, the Hon. F. Langstone, with the request that this site, which is on the bluff overlooking the Tamaki Yacht Club's building on the waterfront road, should bo constituted a public domain. The Minister advised the council last night that the defence authorities had stated that, in view of the very definite value of the reserve for defence requirements, the Defence Department was not prepared to relinquish control of the area. In moving that the letter be referred to the Parks Committee, the Mayor, Mr. Ernest Davis, said he felt they might yet be able to come to some arrangement. This course was taken.